CS Monitor article everyone should read
"When We Abuse Animals We Debase Ourselves" by Barbara Cook Spencer
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0411/p09s01-coop.html?page=1
She makes some wonderful points in this article!
"Yet in order to establish a platform for speaking out against cruel and painful laboratory experiments and slaughtering techniques, animal rights advocates are often asked to prove that animals have a moral sense and can feel physical and emotional pain.
But even if animals could be proved amoral and immune to pain, human beings would have no basis for even careless treatment of them. Most of us were taught as children to take good care of inanimate objects, even though they feel no pain and have no moral sense. We are taught to treat fine books with virtual reverence. We are taught that it is actually a crime to vandalize buildings, cars, and other inanimate objects."
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I like it. I am so using that line of thought during the next discussion on that topic.
umm... off topic, but those are such cute little animal thingies, where/how do you get them? The snail, rabbit and the little squashed bearhamstercat are my favorite!
Treating animals with the utmost dignity and respect is really the "Golden Rule" of conduct toward all species.
Thanks for posting that TT.
umm... off topic, but those are such cute little animal thingies, where/how do you get them? The snail, rabbit and the little squashed bearhamstercat are my favorite!
If you click on the at the end of the group of smileys on top of the box you type in, it brings up another page and the animals are on the third row when you maximize that page. ;)b